living and losing the good life in socialist Yugoslavia /
First Statement of Responsibility
Patrick Hyder Patterson
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Ithaca, N.Y. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cornell University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2011
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xvii, 351 p., [12] p. of plates :
Other Physical Details
ill. (chiefly col.) ;
Dimensions
25 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction : getting it : making sense of socialist consumer culture -- Living it : Yugoslavia's economic miracle -- Making it : building a socialist brand of market culture -- Selling it : legitimizing the appeal of market culture -- Fearing it : the values of Marxism and the contradictions of consumerism -- Taming it : the party-state establishment and the perils of pleasure -- Fighting it : New Left attacks on the consumerist establishment and the Yugoslav dream -- Loving it : ordinary people, everyday life, and the power of consumption -- Needing it : the eclipse of the dream, the collapse of socialism, and the death of Yugoslavia -- Epilogue : missing it : Yugo-nostalgia and the good life lost
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PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
Bought and sold
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Consumer behavior-- Social aspects-- Yugoslavia
Consumption (Economics)-- Social aspects-- Yugoslavia